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Digital Heritage: 5th Summit on New Media Art Archiving
26 May 2025 10:00-17:25 & 27 May 2025 10:00-15:45
Seoul National University Museum of Art
As digital and electronic arts continue to evolve, they challenge traditional archival methods, necessitating ongoing adaptation to new technologies. The 5th Summit on New Media Archiving brings together scholars, practitioners, and archivists to address the preservation and archiving of new media artworks—a vital component of our cultural heritage. This summit serves as an important platform for discussing the theoretical and practical challenges associated with archiving new media artworks and events.
The 5th Summit on New Media Art Archiving, is a collaborative initiative involving the following partners: ISEA Symposium Archives, ACM SIGGRAPH History Archive, Archive of Digital Art (ADA), Ars Electronica, Electronic Language International Festival (FILE) Archives, MEMODUCT Posthuman Archive, and the ZKM Archives. This dedicated group aims to connect archives around the globe and enhance the archiving and preservation efforts of new media art.
5th Summit on New Media Art Archiving Tentative Schedule
FP: Full Paper SP: Short Paper P: Panel AP: Archive Presentation IT: Invited Talks
Day 1 May 26 Monday
Session 1
Welcome
AP: Art Center Nabi Archives
Interconnections and Sound
SP: Futures Forgotten: Rhizomatic Archiving of Immersive Memories – Zeynep Abes
SP: Sharing Attachments: Collective approaches to cataloguing distribution-based audiovisual arts – Linnea Semmerling
P: Digital Preservation and Virtual Reconstruction of Architectural Acoustic Heritage – Doyuen Ko, Sungyoung Kim and Hyeseung Shim
Session 2
AI & New Tools in Archiving
SP: Ask Me Anything: Information Retrieval for Interactive Narrative Generation from Digital Archives – Paul Heinrich Bethge and Jeffrey Shaw
FP: “You Can’t Surprise Yourself!” Suggestion for Human-AI – Dominik Bönisch and Christian Geiger
SP: Improving Historical Algorithm Recreation Through Systems- Sean Carroll
SP: Archiving New Media Art with a VR Camera Kit – Byeongwon Ha
FP: Staging Ars Electronica Archive: Alternative Concept for Exploring Media Art in Education focusing on New Animation Art – Juergen Hagler, Christl Baur and Emiko Ogawa
Session 3
Workshop Report
IT: Report on the Minting, Displaying and Connecting Archives through the Blockchain Workshop – Aissa María Santiso Camiade
Archive Presentations
AP: The History of the ISEA Symposium Archives – Wim van der Plas, Bonnie Mitchell, Terry Chun Wong, Jan Searleman, Colby Jennings
AP: ACM SIGGRAPH History Archives: Progress and Next Steps – Bonnie Mitchell and Janice Searleman
AP: Ars Electronica Archive [Virtual]
AP: ADA [Virtual]
AP: ZKM Archive [Virtual]
AP: Maria Alejandra [Virtual]
AP: Chinese Cyberfeminism Archive (CCA) – ephemeral:data\
AP: BFI Our Screen Heritage Institutional Presentation – Will Swinburne and Kristina Tarasova
New Media Art Reincarnation
FP: Conserving Art Experience in Evolving Media Milieux: A Case
Study of Light on the Net (1996/2024) – Shigeru Kobayashi
FP: Toshio Iwai Piano – as image media and Time Stratum Series: A Tale of (re)Creation – Hiroko Kimura-Myokam
Day 2 May 27 Tues
Session 4
Archives Presentations
AP: Unlocking the Digital Canvas: The FILE ARCHIVE and Its Open Access Commitment – Paula Perissinotto and Fabiana Krepel [Virtual]
Digital Heritage
FP: YOUR HOSTING SERVICE HAS BEEN DEACTIVATED: Persistence and Discontinuity in the Preservation of Latin American Media Arts – Vanina Y. Hofman Matusevich
SP: Informal Archiving: The Space of Reverie and the Dispersed Art Object – Avrokomi Zavitsanou
P: Digital Literature Archives in Latin America: Creative, Curatorial and Technical Choices – Leonardo Flores, Verónica Paula Gómez, Marcos Wasem, José Aburto and Vinícius Carvalho Pereira
Session 5
Connecting Archives
SP: A Cross-Cultural Framework for New Media Art Archives – Daechan Heo
P: Preserving, Providing, Progressing: Access the Excess – Lena Holub, Martin Honzik, Lev Manovich, Olga Shishko, Escher Tsai and Soh Yeong Roh
IT: Report on the ZKM Workshop on Connecting New Media Art Archives – Terry Chun Wong, Bonnie Mitchell, Dominik Bönisch, Felix Mittelberger, Paula Perissinotto, Violeta Vojvodic Balaz [Hybrid]
4th Summit on New Media Art Archiving at ISEA2024 in Brisbane, Australia
[ ISEA2024 Programme: Click HERE ]
[updated Oct 23, 2020]
Summit on New Media Art Archiving was major success
The Summit took place as planned, without flaws, thanks to the support of the ISEA2020 organisation for the first 5 hours (the 16 presentations and 5 q&a sessions) and the Zoom hosting by Bonnie Mitchell for the 3 parallel break-out sessions and the plenary concluding session, during the last 3 hours.
See the: Provisional Proceedings
The order of the presentation programme was mainly based on the respective time zones of the presenters, that varied from Australia to Peru (16 hours time difference between those two locations). The presentations were prerecorded by the presenters and submitted as video files, the q&a sessions with the presenters and the roundtables (Break Out & Concluding sessions) where all life. Some 100 people participated.
Seven of the papers will appear in the ISEA2020 Proceedings, that will be published shortly and included in the ISEA Symposium Archives. We are also in the process of entering the abstracts of all presentations. The videos of the presentations will be embedded in our new (under construction) archive and links will be included in this ‘classic’ ISEA archive. The discussions have also been recorded. How we will make those public is still to be decided.
The four organising parties (the archives of ADA, Ars Electronica, ISEA and SIGGRAPH Art Show) will produce a report of the meeting soon, including planned future actions, as we will continue the co-operation and extend the network gradually.
To sign the Liverpool Declaration (see the link below) send an email to wendy.coones(at)donau-uni.ac.at
- Oliver Grau & Wendy Coones, Archive of Digital Art, http://www.virtualart.at/nc/home.html
- Veronika Liebl & Manuela Naveau, Ars Electronica Archives, http://archive.aec.at/
- Bonnie Mitchell, SIGGRAPH Digital Art Show Archives & ISEA Online Symposium Archives https://digitalartarchive.siggraph.org/ & https://isea-archives.siggraph.org/ (under construction)
- Wim van der Plas, ISEA Online Symposium Archives http://www.isea-archives.org/
[updated August 6, 2019]
The Proceedings of the successful 25th International Symposium on Electronic Art, held from June 22-28 2019 in Gwangju, South Korea, are now included. You can find them here. All the other data of ISEA2019 will soon be uploaded.
[updated August 6, 2019]
On the occasion of the 25th ISEA symposium, the Dutch artists and early symposium contributors Peter Sweenen & Robin Noorda made a wonderful short animation, called “The International Symposium on Electronic Art: From The Netherlands to the Republic of Korea in 25 Great Achievements”. Even though it is very short, it, in a way, contains the whole story. Look at it more than once, you will keep discovering new elements. Thank you very much, Peter, Robin and Alfred (who processed the outer space sound).
The animation is here.
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Call for Volunteers
We need helping hands to work on extending and improving the archives of the International Symposium on Electronic Art. Great work for students (credit points possible in principle), retirees, and anyone interested in the electronic arts or in networking in that world.
